Medicine. IT'S A POWERFUL DRUG THAT'S BECOME A PART OF POPULAR CULTURE. CHANCES ARE YOUR KIDS HAVE HEARD OF MOLLY. MILEY CYRUS SINGS ABOUT IT AND OTHER STARS OUR TEENS LISTEN TO. WHAT YOU DON'T SEE ARE THE DANGERS OF MOLLY. TONIGHT "LOCAL 2" INVESTIGATOR JOEL EISENBAUM REVEALS HOW EASY IT IS TO FIND THIS POTENTIALLY DEADLY DRUG. Reporter: YOUNG SUPERSTARS ARE SINGING ABOUT IT. ?? WE LIKE MOLLY ?? Reporter: OLD SUPERSTARS ARE TALKING ABOUT IT. HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CROWD HAVE SEEN MOLLY? Reporter: EVEN LEBRON JAMES IS LIP SYNCING. IN THE SOUP OF POP CULTURE, EVERYONE SUDDENLY SEEMS TO BE FIXATED ON A FASHIONABLE NEW DRUG. ONE THAT YOUTUBE IS CLEARLY DOCUMENTED AS HAVING BIZARRE EFFECTS. THAT'S WHEN IT WORKS. WHEN IT DOESN'T WORK, IT CAN KILL YOU OR AT LEAST TAKE A GOOD SHOT. I BROKE SEVERAL OF MY TEETH. MY BODY JUST SEIZED UP. I WAS GOING INTO CONVULSIONS. MY EYES WERE FLIPPED BACK IN MY HEAD. Reporter: HERE A HARD CORE DRUG TREATMENT FACILITY IN DEER PARK, 27-YEAR-OLD DYLAN THANKS HIS NOW EX-GIRLFRIEND FOR SAVING HIM FROM MOLLY. HAD SHE NOT INTERVENED, WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN ON THE SAME COURSE? I'D BE DEAD. Reporter: KNOLL MOLLY, MDMA, MOST OFTEN BUT NOT ALWAYS IN PILL FORM. IT'S ALSO THE PUREST, MOST POWERFUL BUILDING BLOCK OF A DRUG THAT'S BEEN ON THE PARTY SCENE FOR YEARS. ECSTASY. ONLY IT'S MORE POTENT AND MORE POPULAR THANKS TO MILEY CYRUS' HIT SONG "WE CAN'T STOP." ?? YOU WANT TO TRY IT EXPLAIN IT, BUT IT'S SO INTENSE THAT YOU CAN'T. IN THE ENVIRONMENT THEY'RE IN, SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS, IT'S HARD SOMETIMES TO SAY NO. Reporter: JUST TWO WEEKS AGO A MAN AND WOMAN IN THEIR 20S DIED AFTER COLLAPSING AT A NEW YORK CONFER FESTIVAL. IN EL PARKS HOUSTON TEEN WAS HOSPITALIZED. MAJOR POLICE AGENCIES IN OUR AREA ACTION INCLUDING THE DEA AND HPD DON'T YET HAVE STATISTICS REGARDING HOW WIDESPREAD THE DRUG REALLY IS. AS "LOCAL 2" INVESTIGATES FOUND OUT, IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO GET AHOLD OF. ADS ON HOUSTON'S CRAIGSLIST DREW US INTO A SERIES OF TEXT MESSAGES FROM A FLURRY OF SELLERS. ONE OF THEM PROMISED TO SEND US A TEN GRAM SAMPLE FOR $300. WE PASSED. AND DYLAN NOW WISHES HE HAD, TOO. IT'S TAKEN ME NINE MONTHS OF BEING CLEAN TO LOOK BACK AND REALIZE THE INSANITY OF IT ALL. Reporter: IN DEER PARK, JOEL EISENBAUM, "LOCAL 2". AS A PARENT OF TEEN-AGERS, I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO KEEP AFTER THE KIDS. THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO. RIGHT. BUT YOU GOT TO KEEP ASKING AND

A Deer Park man, living at a drug treatment facility, is warning teens and club-goers about a drug known as "Molly."

"It's taken me nine months of being clean to realize the insanity of it all," Dylan Aleba, 27, said.

Molly or MDMA is the purest, most powerful building block of Ecstasy. It is most commonly found in pill form, and billed as a relatively harmless way to "enhance" a night out.

Aleba, who hails from New York state, now calls, the Cenikor Foundation in Deer Park home.

Cenikor is a boot-camp style drug and behavioral treatment center.

"I realize now I'm an addict. I'm a drug addict, so whether it's beer or MDMA, I'm going to abuse the crap out of it and push it to the limit," Aleba said candidly.

Aleba agreed to talk to Local 2 because he does not want to see other teens and young adults go through what he did.

"I lost everything," Aleba said.

Neither the Houston Police Department nor the DEA's Houston office keep specific statistics about MDMA, but emergency room doctors on a national scale have noticed an uptick in patients who have taken Molly.

MDMA typically causes a rise in body temperature and heart rate, and can be fatal.

As problematic as the drug itself is the fact that there is virtually no way to quickly and safely make sure a pill is authentic.

"People go out to clubs and they think that they're getting one thing. They very well may not be getting what they bargained for. Thirty to 50 percent is not even MDMA," said Amy Hansen, Cenikor's clinical manager.

Aleba is rebuilding his life one day at a time with Hansen's guidance. He plans to join the Army when his treatment is complete in 15 months.

If you have a news tip or question for KPRC Local 2 Investigates, drop them an e-mail or call their tipline at (713) 223-TIPS (8477).

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